nuclear power

1. 1.

   nuclear energy regarded as a source of electricity for the power grid (for civilian use)

   Synonymsatomic power

   Broaderatomic energy

Questions about nuclear power

What does nuclear power mean?

nuclear power means "nuclear energy regarded as a source of electricity for the power grid (for civilian use)".

What is another word for nuclear power?

Close synonyms include atomic power. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuclear power a common word?

nuclear power is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.